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CSA 2010 has been carefully planned and developed over the past few years. It began with a thorough review of the agency’s current compliance review process, and proceeded through the development of a new Safety Measurement System (SMS) that will use all roadside inspection and crash data and the development of a new interventions toolbox to deal efficiently and effectively with safety problems of various natures and different levels (as identified in SMS).

In addition, the new model includes a proposed change to Safety Fitness Determination (SFD), also tied to SMS results, although implementation of CSA 2010 is not dependent on the proposed change.

The new SMS and interventions toolbox were tested in Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, and New Jersey. Testing began in February 2008 in four states, and expanded to add five more (Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota and Montana) in 2009.

Feedback from enforcement staff and carriers indicate that the new model is both efficient, reaching more carriers, and effective, with some carriers undertaking proactive efforts to learn more and to correct their safety problems

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CSA 2010 | Just Facts, Are You Ready

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Carriers who are considering hiring drivers can review “Driver Profiles” if the drivers have authorized the release of their information.

These profiles are compiled from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) Driver Information Resource (DIR) and will be available to carriers through FMCSA’s new Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP).

Drivers can view their own profiles. PSP is only available as a pre-screening tool and not for use in evaluating current drivers. PSP was mandated by Congress and is not a part of Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010).

Potentially erroneous violations on carrier/driver records can be submitted for review.

The DataQs system (https://dataqs.fmcsa.dot.gov), which does not change under Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010), allows motor carriers and drivers to make a Request for Data Review (RDR) of information that resides in Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) databases such as crash and inspection reports.

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Will CSA 2010 assign safety ratings to individual CMV drivers? I heard that CSA 2010 is designed to rate CMV drivers and to put many of them out of work this summer.

No. Under CSA 2010, individual CMV drivers will not be assigned safety ratings or Safety Fitness Determinations (SFDs).

Consistent with the current safety rating regulations (49 CFR part 385), individual drivers who operate independently as a “motor carrier” (i.e. have their own USDOT number, operating authority, and insurance) will continue to be rated as a motor carrier, as they are today, following an onsite investigation at their place of business.

CSA 2010 will also provide enhanced tools for Safety Investigators (SIs) to identify drivers with safety performance problems during motor carrier investigations. As a result, motor carriers and drivers will have the opportunity to correct the specific safety performance problems.

CSA 2010 is designed to meet one overriding objective: to increase safety on the Nation’s roads. Therefore, it is, by design, a positive program for drivers and carriers with strong safety performance records Also, it will send a strong message that drivers and carriers with poor safety performance histories need to improve.

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CSA 2010 Are You Ready? | FAQ’s

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How are the Safety Measurement System (SMS) scores calculated? How often will it be updated and how far back do violations count?

When CSA 2010 is implemented, SMS will replace the Safety Status (SafeStat) measurement system as FMCSA’s tool to identify high-risk motor carriers requiring interventions in order to improve safety on the Nation’s roads.

SMS will evaluate the safety of individual motor carriers by considering all safety-based roadside inspection violations, not just out-of service violations, as well as State-reported crashes, using 24 months of performance data.

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SMS will assess each carrier’s safety performance in each of the Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs): Unsafe Driving, Fatigued Driving (Hours-of-Service), Driver Fitness, Controlled Substances/Alcohol, Vehicle Maintenance, Cargo-Related, and Crash Indicator.

SMS calculates a measure for each BASIC by combining the time and severity weighted violations/crashes (more recent violations are weighted more heavily) normalized by exposure (e.g. number of power units or number of relevant inspections).

Applying a similar approach to that used in SafeStat, SMS converts each carrier’s BASIC measures into percentiles based on rank relative to peers. SMS will be updated monthly. To understand more about the BASICS, check out the SMS Factsheet and briefings on the CSA 2010 Website at

http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov/. For even more detail, review the SMS Methodology document located here: http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov/documents/SMSMethodology.pdf. The document details which values are assigned for each violation and how they are weighted in Appendix A, starting with A-4 located here: http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov/Documents/SMSMethodology.pdf#nameddest=T1

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Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010) does introduce a driver safety assessment tool to help enforcement staff evaluate drivers’ safety as part of motor carrier investigations.

Using the new Safety Measurement System (SMS), the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) continues to hold motor carriers responsible for the job performance of those who work for them.

Therefore, motor carriers are held accountable for their drivers’ errors such as speeding. This is a longstanding FMCSA position and is not unique to CSA 2010 or the new SMS.

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CSA 2010 Implementation | Are You Ready?

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Implementation Plans for CSA 2010

Based on valuable feedback and knowledge received from its partners and stakeholders through public listening sessions, the nine-State field test, and written comments to the CSA 2010 public docket, FMCSA will roll out CSA 2010 in the fall of 2010 instead of the summer of 2010 as earlier reported.

This relatively minor movement in our rollout timeline will enable the Agency to be more responsive to the feedback, as well as lessons learned from our field test.

Some of the issues under consideration include refinements to methods of measuring exposure to violations and crashes, motor carrier peer grouping, and violation severity weights.

In the fall/winter of 2010, FMCSA will: (1) replace its current measurement system, SafeStat, with SMS; (2) send warning letters nationwide; and (3) implement a revised nationwide Inspection Selection System for roadside inspectors that is based on SMS rather than SafeStat.

All motor carriers, including high risk carriers, will be targeted for intervention using the new SMS. In addition, motor carrier safety performance in each BASIC will be publicly displayed in the same manner that the SEAs are displayed under SafeStat today.

With regard to the Crash BASIC, only the raw crash data will be displayed publicly. This is consistent with SafeStat today, because the crash reports do not include information on preventability or accountability.

FMCSA will explore the feasibility of using police accident reports to determine accountability before the crash reports are entered into SMS to ensure we have the most accurate information available for assessing carriers’ safety fitness.

After the Operational Model test concludes this month, all nine test States will carry out the full array of CSA 2010 interventions. For the remaining forty-one States and the District of Columbia, the CSA 2010 interventions will be phased in beginning in the fall of 2010 and extending into 2011.

While the safety fitness determination rulemaking is in process, FMCSA will continue to issue safety ratings in accordance with its current safety fitness regulation, 49 CFR Part 385 – Safety Fitness Procedures.

On April 12, 2010, FMCSA began a data preview period during which motor carriers can view their performance data online, sorted by BASIC, as it will appear in SMS. For the first four months – mid-April through mid-August 2010, motor carriers will see their violations categorized by BASIC.

Beginning in late August and running through November 2010, after any refinements to the SMS methodology are completed, motor carriers will be able to see the SMS assessment of their violations through CSA 2010.

The purpose of this data preview period is to provide individual motor carriers the opportunity to view their data from the CSA 2010 perspective, and to use the time to identify and take actions to correct deficiencies in their operations which are leading to unsafe behavior.

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CSA 2010 Are You Ready?

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This new CSA 2010 operational model has three major components:

Measurement – CSA 2010 measures safety performance in new ways, using inspection and crash results to identify carriers whose behaviors could reasonably lead to crashes.
Evaluation – CSA 2010 helps FMCSA and its State partners to correct high risk behavior by contacting more carriers and drivers, with interventions tailored to their specific safety problem, as well as a new safety fitness determination methodology.
Intervention – CSA 2010 covers the full spectrum of safety issues – from how data is collected, evaluated, and shared to how enforcement officials can intervene most effectively and efficiently to improve safety on our roads.
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CSA 2010 has been carefully planned and developed over the past few years. It began with a thorough review of the agency’s current compliance review (CR) process, and proceeded through the development of a new Safety Measurement System (SMS) that will use all roadside inspection and crash data and the development of a new interventions toolbox to deal efficiently and effectively with safety problems of various natures and different levels (as identified in SMS). In addition, the new model includes a proposed change to Safety Fitness Determination (SFD), also tied to SMS results, although implementation of CSA 2010 is not dependent on the proposed change.

The expanded suite of intervention tools enable investigators to systematically evaluate why safety problems are occurring, to recommend remedies, to encourage corrective action(s), and, where corrective action is inadequate, to invoke strong penalties. The new SMS and interventions toolbox are now being tested in Colorado, Georgia, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, and New Jersey. Testing began in February 2008 in four states, and expanded to add two more (Montana and Minnesota) in spring 2009. Two additional states may be added in Fall 2009.

CSA 2010 re-engineers the existing enforcement and compliance business process to provide a better view into how well large commercial motor vehicle (CMV) carriers and drivers are complying with safety rules, and to intervene earlier with those who are not. When the program is fully rolled out by the end of 2010, FMCSA will have a new enforcement and compliance Operational Model that will utilize its resources, and those of its state enforcement partners, more efficiently and effectively, making the roads even safer for everyone.

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CSA 2010 Are You Ready?

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CSA 2010 Are You Ready?

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This new CSA 2010 operational model has three major components:

Measurement – CSA 2010 measures safety performance in new ways, using inspection and crash results to identify carriers whose behaviors could reasonably lead to crashes.
Evaluation – CSA 2010 helps FMCSA and its State partners to correct high risk behavior by contacting more carriers and drivers, with interventions tailored to their specific safety problem, as well as a new safety fitness determination methodology.
Intervention – CSA 2010 covers the full spectrum of safety issues – from how data is collected, evaluated, and shared to how enforcement officials can intervene most effectively and efficiently to improve safety on our roads.
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